Authorship and Film

ISBN-13: 9780415939942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str.

David A. Gerstner; Janet Staiger

Opis

Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume revitalizes the question of authorship by connecting it to larger issues of identity - in film, in the marketplace, in society, in culture. Essays range from the auteur theory and Casablanca to Oscar Micheaux, from the American avant-garde to community video, all illuminating how authorship is a complex idea with far-reaching implications. This ambitious and wide-ranging book should be of interest to anyone concerned with film studies and the concept of the author.

Recenzje

"For scholars who wish to learn the current state of author studies, and to be stimulated by the prospects of the further work to be done, Iuthorship and Film is an excellent resource." -- Bill R. Scalia--Hillsdale College, Journal of Film and Video

Spis treści

Introduction, Part 1 authorship studies in review; Chapter 1 the practices of authorship, Chapter 2 authorship approaches, Part 2 authorship and identity in hollywood; Chapter 3 the auteur theory, Chapter 4 I hear music and …, Chapter 5 stepping out from behind the grand silhouette, Part 3 authorship and identity near and far from hollywood; Chapter 6 intentions and mass culture, Chapter 7 cundieff’s revisionof masculinityin film, or, a “hard” man is not necessarily good to find, Chapter 8 john waters goes to hollywood, Chapter 9 len lye, roger horrocks; Chapter 10 a lost man, Chapter 11 grassroots authors, Part 4 the author-function; Chapter 12 reframing arobert stigwood, Chapter 14 making films asian american.

O autorze

David Gerstner is Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Cinema Studies at CUNY, College of Staten Island. Janet Staiger is William P. Hobby Centennial Professor in Communication at the University of Texas, Austin, where she also directs the Center for Women's Studies. She is coauthor of the The Classical Hollywood Cinema (1985) and author of several books, most recently Perverse Spectators (2000) and Blockbuster TV (2001).